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Extract: Music and science are normally distinct departments in schools, yet coming together to combine the two can create effective and lasting learning experiences. In October, the Daventry Music Centre, under Kerry Horner, blew the barriers down in a memorable live performance with American singer songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman, playing songs from The Mighty Sky, a Grammy-nominated album about astronomy.

Extract: In a generation of perpetual connectivity to our mobile devices and the constantly changing face of technology, it seems absurd that we should be suffering a lack of skilled scientists and engineers. In an interview with the BBC in 2013, Professor John Perkins, chief scientific adviser at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, said that this could be constraining the UK’s economic recovery.

Extract: The very first Schools’ Innovation and Enterprise event took place on Friday 13th June 2014. The event was hosted by BioCity Scotland and organised by the University of Edinburgh. The aim of this unique event was to stimulate pupils’ interest in STEM and Life Sciences, by providing opportunities for schoolteachers and young people to experience innovation and enterprise in Life Sciences at BioCity Scotland.

Extract: Gaia Theory, often characterised as Earth System Science, emerged from the work of James Lovelock and his subsequent collaboration with the microbiologist Lynn Margulis. Lovelock’s life and work is the subject of a major exhibition at the Science Museum www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/lovelock, which will run until April 2015.

Extract: ‘I believe everyone has the potential to be an inventor!’ says Newcastleborn Professor Danielle George. Professor George will be presenting the 2014 series of Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, the sixth female lecturer since 1825. This article outlines this year’s Lectures.

Extract: Assessment is primarily a matter of judgement rather than measurement, yet for too long we have been pretending that we can measure pupils’ attainment and progress in increasingly fine detail.